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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...x- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every phi... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ... that is, a born gentleman, speaks of bankers as we in England should of a Jewish usurer, or tricking money- changer. The liberal trades, such as thos... ...ence arises a phenomenon, which has too lan- guidly arrested the notice of historians; namely, that already, and for centuries before the time of Cons... ...that God should vindicate by some memorable interference, since of all the Jewish institutions it was that one which only and which frequently became ... ...an bigotry of Rome. Paganism for Rome, it ought to have been remembered by historians, was a mere neces- sity of her Pagan origin. Paganism was the fa...

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...ngs of all lovers of art. Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it ... ...e finest country in the world, sir , and he felt a lively superiority over Americans, Colonials, Dagos, Dutchmen, and Kanakas. But I do not think he w... ...elu, whither came ships’ captains in search of a man. He was married to an American woman, obese and slat- ternly , fallen to this pass by Heaven know... ...pan- iards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp. By day it is merely sordid, but at night, lit only by the l... ...r- give themselves for the opportunity which had escaped them. There was a Jewish trader called Cohen, who had come by one of Strickland’s pic- tures ...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...stic poem regarding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s fu... ...ing impersonation seven times, “An Old Sweetheart of Mine” nine times, the Jewish story and the funeral oration twice; but now she was ardent and, bec... ...ll, had tramped through Gibbon, Hume, Grote, Prescott, and the other thick historians; that he could repeat pages from them— and did. When Dr. Westlak... ...n once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tenne...

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..., that in 1688-9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large effect in this change to the perso... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...mise—except that the sleeves are want- ing; and during the first period of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women o... ...worn by the Hebrew women in all ages; and in the flourishing period of the Jewish kingdom, probably by men: and so essential an ornament were they dee... ...doubtful. In a later age, as we collect from the Thalmud, Part VI. 43, the Jewish ladies wore gold or silver pendants, of which the upper part was sha... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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...inattentively, and he saw that she was preoc- cupied with a new idea. “And Americana—do you collect Americana?” Selden stared and laughed. “No, that’s... ... good editions of the books I am fond of.” She made a slight grimace. “And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?” “I should fancy so—except to the h... ...l collector values a thing for its rarity. I don’t suppose the buy- ers of Americana sit up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn’... ...never going to read! And I suppose most of the owners of Americana are not historians either?” “No; very few of the historians can afford to buy them.... ...nning her with interest and approval. He was a plump rosy man of the blond Jewish type, with smart London clothes fitting him like upholstery, and sma...

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... with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, and... ...as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle wit... ...erloo, or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, Geo... ...om Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High- priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summon... ...potted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a wor... ...Fire-balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this a... ...onsiderably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly... ... pacificated. ’ Here is a” ...— Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. ... “After a careful survey of the whole ground, our bel...

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...dropped;’ like ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich-eater! Jewish or Ger- man Freys do business in the great Cesspool of Agio; which C... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...his world, were the time for her to speak. One Prophetess, though careless Historians have omitted her name, condition, and whereabout, be- comes audi... ...f, those Thirteen most poor mean- dressed men, at frugal Supper, in a mean Jewish dwelling, with no symbol but hearts god-initiated into the ‘Divine d... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...ative is to do. Greatly to the scandal of philosophi- cal men, and of most Historians;—who do in that judge naturally, and yet not wisely. A Governing... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w... ...t: on the morrow is public entry into Paris. On which public entry the Day-Historians, Diurnalists, or Journalists as they call themselves, have prese...

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... they do speak. An earnest, truthful kind of men. They are, as we know, of Jewish kindred: but with that deadly terrible ear- nestness of the Jews the... ...he Jews they seem to combine something grace- ful, brilliant, which is not Jewish. They had “Poetic contests” among them before the time of Mahomet. S... ...as done, Poets sang for prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that. One Jewish quality these Arabs manifest; the outcome of many or of all high qua... ...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,... ...mselves, were this one undeniable fact kept hon- estly in view by History! Historians indeed will tell you that they do keep it in view;—but look whet...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ... that it happened thus: The Gauls had an unusually able leader, whom Latin historians call Brennus, but whose real name was most likely Bran, and who ... ...ried to talk him over. He told him that the high priest had for- saken the Jewish superstition, that the T emple was in ruins, and that resistance was...

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...don’t travel about with a miscellaneous collec- tion of eighteenth-century historians!” her uncle ex- claimed. “Gibbon! Ten big volumes at least.” Rac... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ...earance, I expect,” he continued, “though it’s an absolute lie to say I’ve Jewish blood in me—as a matter of fact we’ve been in Norfolk, Hirst of Hirs... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...and the whole thing was drudgery tn me. I had no ap- preciation, again, of Historians, or historians; only thought Thucydides difficult and Herodotus ... ...ay, if I live. To spend such energy as they and I have upon the details of Jewish history, e.g., would be unwise. The great lessons must be taught, as... ...se. The great lessons must be taught, as, e.g., St. Paul in 1 Cor. x. uses Jewish history. ‘October 15, I finished my last chapter of St. John’s Gos- ... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ... in the neigh- borhood of Paris, but failed to meet Esther. That beautiful Jewish face, which he called “a face out of te Biple,” was always before hi... ...died possessed of secrets which will remain secrets from the best informed historians. The struggle between the general police of the kingdom, and the... ...of his “Anchel’s” hands in both his, talking to her in his horrible Polish-Jewish accent, a jargon which must be as unpleasant to read as it is to hea...

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... as that of Christ, ought to abstain to the utmost of their power from the Jewish ceremonies.” “O unaccountable!” say I: “what! baptism a Jewish cerem... ...I: “what! baptism a Jewish ceremony?” “Yes, my friend,” says he, “so truly Jewish, that a great many Jews use the bap- tism of John to this day. Look ... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...urs to remove its original as far backward as possible. Besides, the first historians were the most negligent in setting down the eras: books were inf... ... I have made some transient mention of their philosophers, but as for good historians among them, I don’t know of any; and, indeed, a Frenchman was fo... ...ts ob- jects in a dim and confused light may have sunk the credit of their historians. One half of the nation is always at variance with the other hal...

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..., and 16 Thackeray struggle, Jerusalem agonized and died. . . . Y es, the Jewish city is lost to Jewish men; but have they not taken the world in exc... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... herself? The Lady Rowena did certainly say with mighty magnanimity to the Jewish maiden, “Come and live with me as a sister,” as the former part of t... ...ould raise the dead up, did his Highness think it meet. “‘Did not once the Jewish captain stay the sun upon the hill, And, the while he slew the foeme... ...s, who cut away among them without mercy. And although none of the Spanish historians whom I have consulted make mention of Sir Wilfrid as the real au... ...ve been, however, an effeminate race; they are represented by contemporary historians as being passionately fond of flying kites. Others say they went...

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...r doctrinal religions. The Koran having pi- rated many sentiments from the Jewish and the Christian systems, could not but offer some rudiments of mor... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...he same line of argument applies to all the compliances of Christ with the Jewish prejudices (partly imported from the Euphrates) as to demonology , w... ...o opinions in the Church; a process far more difficult than is imagined by historians, always so ready to tell us fluently what ‘the nation’ or ‘the p... ...ge- ment of a learned prince, Ptolemy Philadelphus, by an asso- ciation of Jewish emigrants in Alexandria. It was, as the event has shown in very many... ...curs nowhere that we remem- ber, except in Lampridius, one of the Augustan historians, is here applied to Heliogabalus; and means, not the act of suic... ...harles have replied to the enemies we have noticed— to those, like so many historians since his day, who taxed him with studying Casuistry for the pur...

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...et with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, a... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ...RESARTUS or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, G... ...whom Old Clothes are not venerable. Watch, too, with reverence, that bearded Jewish High priest, who with hoarse voice, like some Angel of Doom, summ... ...nspotted from the world. “They have their Temples, whereof the chief, as the Jewish Temple did, stands in their metropolis; and is named Almack’s, a w... ...e Fire balls, and supernal and infernal prodigies, which, in the case of the Jewish Mysteries, have also more than once scared back the Alien? Be this... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ... they were the first Notables since Richelieu’s, in the year 1626. By some Historians, sitting much at their ease, in the safe distance, Lomenie has b... ...y Democrats, by D’Orleans, D’Artois, and enemies of the pub- lic weal. Nay Historians, to this day, will prove it by one argu- ment: these Brigands pr... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...crowds on his passage, to read their doom on his face; which exhibits, say Historians, a mix- ture ‘of sorrow, of fervour and valour,’ singular to beh... ...ropped;’ like ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich- eater! Jewish or German Freys do business in the great Cess- pool of Agio; which C... ..., those Thir- teen most poor mean-dressed men, at frugal Supper, in a mean Jewish dwelling, with no symbol but hearts god-initiated into the ‘Divine d...